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and i'm fully back to this is the news hour live from our headquarters in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the doctors the nurses all of the people who are screwing up the. job that's indescribable hailing first responders as heroes president donald trump mates billie's paramedics and firefighters who are on the scene after sunday's mass shooting in las vegas meanwhile senior republicans say they want to investigate devices that turned guns into rapid fire weapons in the wake of the massacre also this hour kasra nader's call for mediation over their push for independence from spain madrid says there's nothing to talk about and an outbreak of the highly contagious spray causes panic in madagascar. thank you for joining as the u.s. president has commended the efforts of medical staff. and police following sunday's

night mass shooting in las vegas fifty eight people were killed and more than five hundred injured in the massacre the deadliest in modern u.s. history but during his trip to las vegas donald trump again avoided the subject of gun control laws rob reynolds reports from last august. president donald trump said he went to las vegas to pay his respects and honor doctors nurses police officers and civilian heroes who saved lives. his first stop was at a hospital where he visited privately for about an hour with gunshot victims and family members i just met some of the most amazing people we had we met patients that were absolutely terrible the wounded and the doctors the nurses and all of the people of the hospital have done. a good job that's indescribable las vegas is a city trump knows well his name adorns one of the highrise casino hotels on the

famous strip but on this day he saw a different vegas a city traumatized and grieving at a sidewalk memorial hundreds of candles notes and toys gave physical shape to the city's sorrow the psychological wounds inflicted on the community run deep says resident shanta gibson everyone is feeling and whether you are a person that just likes to go out and enjoy a events which a family or is really disturbing trying to showered praise on las vegas police and firefighters as one eyewitness recounted this week while everyone else was crouching police officers were standing up as targets just trying to direct people and tell them where to go the traditional role of consoler in chief does not seem to come naturally to president trump and some have criticized the tone of his remarks and behavior on recent trips to hurricane ravaged areas of texas florida

and earlier this week in puerto rico this time there were no jarring notes our souls are stricken with grief for every american who lost a husband or a wife a mother or a father son or daughter we know that your sorrow feels endless. we stand together to help you carry your pain back at the memorial shonda gibson was unimpressed by trump's visit i don't feel his sincerity at all the only reason i feel as if he's come in is a status quo you have to give the president you're going to look stupid if you don't step up and come down trumps stay in las vegas lasted several hours but the city's pain will last much longer rob reynolds al-jazeera las vegas stephen paddle ex-girlfriend says she had no idea he was planning sunday's shooting mariano danny has returned from the philippines where she says center to see her family

she's been questioned by the f.b.i. issued a statement through her lawyer describing patrick as a kind caring and quiet man a little more than two weeks ago. steven told me he found a cheap ticket for me to the philippines and that he wanted me to take a trip home. to see my family. like all filipinos abroad. i was excited to go home and see family and friends. while there he wired me money which he said was free to buy a house for me and my family. i was grateful. but honestly i was worried that first. the unexpected trip home and then the money was a way of breaking up with me. it never occurred to me in any way whatsoever that he was planning violence against anyone. well mary no danny's sister says she had no

prior knowledge of the shooting and was sent away on purpose. it. was said no way. she was no. so you will be. there for your work. somehow. so the. interactions and that's. i thank you for wearing my sister's life live not to and to gallagher in las vegas andy there was another press conference a short while ago from las vegas authorities what's the latest what did they have to say. well some interesting developments we just found out in that press conference that stephen partic actually stayed in another hotel days before sunday night when there was another music festival going on we

don't know whether that was because he was planning an attack on that particular festival but decided to postpone it we also know now that there were over were thousands of rounds in a hotel room sixteen hundred rounds in the car that was searched along with explosives but i think it's the meticulous nature of how this attack was pre-planned that is really becoming clear let's listen to some of what the las vegas sheriff has to say. what we know is steven patrick is a man who spent decades acquiring weapons and ammo and lived in a secret life much of which would never be fully understood he meticulously planned on the worst domestic attack in united states history. and andy as expected the massacre has reignited the debate over gun laws in the u.s. and in particular in this case over the type of weapons and accessories that are available to people. you know what we're talking about here is something

called a bump stock basically that replaces the traditional stock on a rifle and it enables someone with a weapon to fire automatically and we know we've all heard the gunshot sounds from sunday night and how terrifying that was but at the moment democratic lawmakers are trying to push through a change to stop people from being able to buy those gun stocks and of modifiers as well take a look. on sunday night the sound of rapid gunfire from stephen products hotel room was unmistakable police say the sixty four year old used a device known as a bump stock to fire more rounds and inflict unthinkable tragedy. the device which is legal replaces the standard stock of a rifle for in the weapon to slide back and forth enabling automatic fire now that most sensitive issues gun control is once again being talked about democratic senator dianne feinstein tried to introduce

a ban on assault rifles four years ago but that failed in the wake of the las vegas shooting she's proposing new laws that would ban modifications of already deadly weapons when is the right time we hear that every time something happens when is the right time and i think this is the right time and since i've been here there's just been incident after incident i thought it would end with combine you know i thought it would end with same. doesn't end. during his visit to last vegas president trump made it clear he's not ready to discuss gun control but some republicans may be on board yeah i would certainly look at that and i'm not an expert on bombs dogs but all things that make america safer and don't infringe on the second amendment so you think now is the time to have this policy debate yeah i think so i think would be a good time to have a hearing many republicans say the legislation is premature and inappropriate so

soon after such a tragedy the powerful national rifle association donates millions to republican politicians and past mass shootings have done little to change attitudes democrats remain passionate about change how much to our. mothers and fathers brothers sam. has. jammie what tell me and tell us what is demanded how minimal. well it takes to wake up this congress. i'll sing a stand only a handful of republican lawmakers say they're even prepared to discuss bans on things like bomb stocks now for this legislation to have any chance of succeeding that number will need to greatly increase but think about this five years ago a gunman walked into a school and killed a five year old children and nothing changed it's not likely to change now as we're

here in las vegas will bump stocks are no longer for sale they've completely sold out in gun shops across the city and the gallagher in las vegas thank you very much for that andy and other world news three u.s. special operations soldiers have been killed and two others injured in an attack in the share a joint patrol of u.s. . bush near the border with mali let's go to diane estabrook was in washington d.c. for us and what more we learning about this attack. we don't know a whole lot we just had a call into the pentagon and they're releasing very few details at this point and we can tell you what you said that we think what we are understanding is that three u.s. commandos were killed two others were injured in addition to five soldiers from niger they were on patrol in southwest niger near the border of mali this is an area that has a heavy presence of insurgents some from al qaeda some from another group known as

the islamic state in greater so now that you want us has had a presence military presence there out west africa it has been in niger for a while and it's been helping in counterterrorism efforts in reconnaissance in training at this point the pentagon is again releasing very few details so we don't know who attacked these gentleman these soldiers but we do know that president is aware of the attack and we're expecting to get more details probably tomorrow from the pentagon diane thank you very much for that. madagascar is trying to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious plague at least thirty people have died in the past two months and almost two hundred suspected cases have been reported the government has banned public gatherings in the capital in an attempt to stop the disease from spreading ossama bin javid reports. these are the culprits partly responsible for the plague spreading in madagascar infected right spread the

bubonic plague while the pneumonic plague is carried from person to person more than one hundred sixty people have been infected when they say blue bonnet plague the blue bow actually stands for the swelling in the various love notes but it soon as it spread from the lungs i could cough and those droplets could infect you that's alarming because it's human to human transmission rather than animal to human. on average two to six hundred people are infected annually in feet outbreaks of the plague. it is rule areas but this time it spread to populated parts the government has now banned public meetings in the capital and then and i reveal that they must first we biomass because we have heard of the disease that is spread through breathing so just to be on the safe side has never no i don't shake people's hands and i don't care so i don't know the precautions you take are not to talk to people and always wear a mask. the disease killed an estimated two hundred million people in the

fourteenth century health experts are advising caution but they say there is no need for panic the plague is treatable with antibiotics and the world health organization says there is no risk that the disease can spread internationally with lisi example i would like to remind you here and it is important that the plague exists in many countries and the latest epidemics in some countries including but kenya madagascar zambia algeria and the d.r. see it's not only madagascar and this is important because what we hear in the city is that the plague is if madagascar is the end of the world we would just like to say that it is a disease like any other but we are lucky that this disease has a cure and this treatment is available and it is free. many schools are closed and they are being sprayed to kill fleas campaigns are also underway to remove trash in cities and officials are setting right traps the health ministry says it's taking

steps to keep infections from spreading of a disease which was believed to have already been wiped out some of the job i was there. plenty more ahead on the news hour including this small device which could revolutionize the way can't detect it plus. i'm done with wine are important brands where the united nations stabilization force is pulling out of haiti but after thirty years here. and a world cup without messi it could happen as argentina fight to get to russia. the details in sports. spain's catalonia region says he wants mediators to help resolve a standoff with the central government but the central government in madrid says for that to happen the region must respect the law on sunday more than two million

cattle voted for secession from a session from spain in a referendum that was back. when are closer than we've ever been to achieving a historic desire on sunday we succeeded in holding a referendum despite the oppression of the police yesterday we set an example of a general strike and then days to come we will show the best face of our country and this institution applying the results of the referendum in the meantime we must keep our confidence and not rise to any provocation or any attempts at violence we do not want that here and. we must remain strong and dignified and we will be a country able to make our dream a reality. his call now with more from barcelona. the head of the catalan government colors posed to monta used a televised address to criticize the spanish government's handling of the political crisis he also said that he firmly disagreed with king philippe's address to the nation the previous day in that address the king accused the catalan of already

observed disloyalty and suggested they were almost on the verge of rebellion whose demand used a measured tone to say that the solution to the problems of catalonia is attempt to break away from the rest of spain was a political matter not a police matter he has once again suggested talks and mediation in this crisis the spanish government was very quick however to come out and say that the only way that they would consider such talks was if catalonia abandoned its attempts to session that is something that will be deaf very difficult for the catalan government both because of the referendum results but also because if the man tries to back away from this proposed declaration of independence which could come as soon as next monday then effectively he could risk losing a process session majority in the catalan parliament. meanwhile the vice president of the european parliament has the spanish government and catalan authorities to

avoid further confrontation. violence does not solve anything in politics it is never an answer never a solution and it can never be used as a weapon or instruments europe knows this better than anywhere else none of us want to see violence in our society. however it is of course the jew chief or any government to uphold the rule of law and this sometimes does require the portion that use of force. at least fifty people have been killed in a.t.m. others injured by an airstrike in syria as there is or province it's not clear who carried on the strikes in the town of. this amateur video reportedly shows a nearby town of maya dean being bombed u.s. and russian backed forces are separately trying to retake the region from i saw fighters now russia says it's investigating and i saw

a video which apparently shows two of its soldiers captured by the armed group in dairies or syria the russian foreign ministry says it's working to establish details about the man its defense ministry has previously denied any of its soldiers have been captured russia is supporting syria's government in its fight against eisel in their sore iraqi forces reportedly advance into the heart of the iso held city of how we are in iraq military leaders say a group of troops police and a shia force are now in the city center i saw has lost control of several cities in iraq this year including its former stronghold of mosul. turkey's president is vowing to take what he calls decisive steps to stop kurdish leaders from declaring an independent state from iraq. president has. been to discuss kurdish secession efforts under simmons has more from a sample. president rouhani and erdogan on opposing sides over syria

but together in their reaction to the kurdish referendum next door in iraq both turkey and iran have kurdish minority populations both presidents believe any independence move in iraq could cause unrest in their countries and even more instability in the region there's agreement for more cooperation between ms along with sharing more intelligence and deep terror operations both men had stern faces as they promised action but they weren't specifying what might happen. as far as we concerned iraq is one single country syria is one single country and we do not accept the geographical border changes in any way whatsoever we do not wish to exert this pressure but the wrong decisions made by some of the heads of the kurdish regional government need to be compensated for it would have. we correspond with the iraqi central government as far as we're concerned this

referendum is illegitimate we have already taken certain steps but from this moment onward more decisive steps will be taken. turkey's army is in the third week of military exercises next to the only border crossing point into northern iraq a small number of iraqi troops joined in last week and they're still there iran has deployed tanks on its border and is also engaged in joint exercises with iraq this is all intended to increase the pressure on the iraqi kurdish leadership the two presidents may have been short on detail in any further action they plan. but that could be tactical they insist that iran turkey and the central government in iraq will act in unison. there appears to be a determination to cut off the iraqi kurdish leadership unless it really now says the referendum result in this isolation issue this content month's issue you know

in politics terms in economic terms and also in military terms and those are two straw that if we feel our south threatened. back that then ankara can. be on the same room in the same room sit on the same table and. think about military options together. but most military observers believe cross border interventions by turkey all round are unlikely and if more economic sanctions are imposed such as shutting off the kurdish oil pipeline that runs through turkey it won't just the kurds and to simmons' al-jazeera istanbul. according to convict of forty two people including soldiers in a major trialing to the failed go in two thousand and sixteen they were accused of trying to assassinate president. on most of those convicted or given life sentences . now u.s. president donald trump will ask congress for

a twenty nine billion dollars emergency relief package for hurricane recovery efforts made a controversial visit to puerto rico two weeks after it was hit by hurricane maria . in the puerto rican capital san juan where locals are hoping the disaster will be the catalyst for long term change. it soon became clear after hurricane maria passed through puerto rico that. aid was going to be forthcoming any time quickly for why the washington or from the authorities here in puerto rico so it was up to community groups to begin organizing to try to get food to people to try to help people to try and rebuild and try and recover people from houses and i'm joined now by. one of those who are overseeing fifteen community groups around puerto rico who are doing very well extending the sort of work they're already doing here in puerto rico because of the austerity measures and the financial emergency that was already taking place you could explain that this is just an extension of what you were doing already so. they keep up with what we were doing but it's also

urgency that has come with it it's like a deal of bail has been lifted. now for the world to see the poverty that already exists in it what it means in terms of for him restructure the impact of a hearing of this magnitude in the end it feels like that here it was just the beginning and what has happened. it feels like we're still in the middle of the story where the. connections in between the austerity emergency that was already underway and what's happening now as a result. so. billion seventy two billion dollars and frankly connected. economic policies that congress passes that allow specific industries like pharmaceutical industries to be made millions and billions of dollars off rico and at the same time the infrastructure suffers right they don't pay taxes been used as a tax haven for

a very long time and it doesn't have political power so you have a place that is historically been kept poor that has been used to make billions of dollars and extract well and at the same time your infrastructure that goes from peoples' homes which they don't make enough money to have a cement home so the impact is much worse but it also goes to the extent of what happens to our roads our electricity how is it that after we've made so much money for all these industries nothing is left behind burger donald trump says he wants to forgive but a reader of the goldman sachs read i'm going to make a buck i would like to see that in paper i think. donald trump is someone difficult to trust who came here and made a ridiculous of the people part dirty it was embarrassing to watch the governor laughing while he was making jokes about her thirty bill and diminishing the amount of people that we've lost and the amount of people that's that we've had some of which we haven't even counted for so if that's true i want to see it on paper and

he should have a clear it's not a concession he's making is not your marco rubios thank you very much. groups that are that they would rather decentralized relief and reconstruction and that the same authorities would try to cut services and put a record called necessarily be trusted now to rebuild what are we good. central america is at risk of more flooding with forecasters warning a tropical depression good strengthen into a hurricane the storm is about three hundred kilometers southeast of kabul. on the nicaraguan juris border the u.s. national hurricane center says it should come close to the coast of nicaragua early thursday. still ahead on this i. internet giant amazon gets an unwelcome item is shopping basket i'll tell you what it was later in the news hour plus. i'm going hey reporting from bangkok where there is a last minute rush the thais to pay their last respects to the late king before his funeral and no love lost between two of the giants of women's tennis joe will tell

you how this grudge match in china out went down coming up in sports just a witness. to an enchanting. hello again we've got some heavy rain at the moment over parts of china that rain is trying to clear up though so it's still going to be with us on thursday get still giving us a substantial outbreaks of rain but then eventually begins to move away towards the northeast and friday is looking for a draw or for many of us here you can see though we've still got a fair few showers down in the southern part of our map that's thanks to these winds coming in from the sea bringing in plenty of moisture with them and it looks like we're going to see large amounts of cloud here on quite a few outbreaks of rain as well meanwhile a bit further south there has been plenty of sunshine over the philippines but also

it's a roll of the library showers that have been developing as well i think that's the way things are going to stay as we head through the next couple of days as well as i had plenty of sunshine just one or two showers elsewhere though more in the way of showers for some of us it looks like it could be wet throughout the day those showers are now pushing for the south now as well so for some of us in java we could catch one or two showers particularly in jakarta thursday as we head across towards india the wet weather here is making something of a comeback of plenty of it in the south already but then we're seeing those showers around kolkata and those are gradually pushing their way towards the west so we'll see more of them as we head through thursday and into friday pushing their way across not poor as well. there with sponsored by qatar. should be agreed in the bring smiles but it's also number one in global health crisis cardiovascular disease that's our number one killer all right most of the

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you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories u.s. resin donald trump has phrase medical staff and police following sunday night's shooting in las vegas fifty eight people were killed and more than five hundred injured democrats and some top republican lawmakers are calling for a debate on banning devices used to make gun fun guns fire like automatic weapons. trying to contain an outbreak of the plague at least thirty people have died in the last two months while the latest outbreak has spread to urban centers the world health organization is calling for calm. and the leader of spain's catalonia region says he wants mediators to help resolve a standoff with the central government hundred says for that to happen the region must respect the law. after thirteen years the u.n.

mission is pulling out of haiti it says its work is nearly done after helping put the country back on the road to recovery the peacekeepers have been credited with bringing some stability to haiti but as don reports their legacy also includes disease violence and sexual. the united nations is going home early four thousand police and military personnel taking with them their trucks armored vehicles and the mobile hospital. they'd like haitians to remember them for helping to bolster national institutions for consensus building a successful election as human rights work and their relief and humanitarian aid in the aftermath of devastating hurricanes and an earthquake. in the haitian people it is an indication of the recognition by the security council that the. work which was intrusted to the mission. did in fact produce positive

results. but staying behind another legacy these children and their mother say were fathered by europe one u.n. troops stationed in the southwestern coastal city of port salut then abandoned. i'm very angry that the un is leaving as it's left us with nothing they should take responsibility they know about the children they did d.n.a. tests and they told us their positive but never give us the results. i feel abandoned after years of running around and false promises from the un nothing has happened they make us do a lot of stuff but there's no results. this is just one of several scandals including rape and alleged murder involving u.n. troops from a number of countries the un has apologized saying sexual exploitation has no place in its operations the organization systematically. all of the information

and all of the cases that it presents. in order to ensure that there is in fact reaction and positive action on the part of the members. many also want answers about the two thousand and ten color epidemic which investigators say was caused by nepalese u.n. troops and the un operations to pacify no go areas in july two thousand and five un troops entered this neighborhood with guns blazing the bullet holes still visible in the buildings behind me and unknown and still disputed a number of residents were killed. a smaller one thousand three hundred strong u.n. force remain to work with the justice system which also remains a many haitians asking whether the mission which many here never welcomed has left the future of their troubled country any more stable. than zero point two bronze.

ecuador's president has announced an interim replacement for jailed for ice president jorge grouse urban development minister mariano honderich who no will take the job while glass is investigated for allegedly taking millions of dollars in bribes from brazilian construction giant or the brecht a scandal has toppled politicians across latin america those facing investigations including former president of peru and brazilian cabinet members. a draft u.n. report has added saudi arabia to a blacklist for the killing and maiming of children in yemen the confidential draft obtained by the reuters news agency attributed nearly seven hundred child casualties to the saudi led military coalition in two thousand and sixteen but it notes the coalition has put measures in place to improve child protection the aid group save the children has welcomed the report but says it sees little sign of improvement on the ground meanwhile a family of seven has been killed in an airstrike that hit their home in the yemen

sada province it happened in the town of beit came near the saudi border locals are blaming the sound in a coalition for the airstrike saudi arabia's king solomon has arrived in moscow for a five day trip the first set of visit by saudi monarchs russia king solomon will hold talks with russian president vladimir putin the war in syria will be top of the agenda along with financial investments and stab allies in oil markets early chalons has more from moscow. i think the main reason why he's arrived here is because of the changing landscape of middle eastern politics. america is still the preeminent global power in the region but you could argue that its influence there is weakening and so traditional allies of the us like saudi arabia like turkey like egypt and israel have all been coming to moscow recently their

leaders have essentially hedging their bets. letting me putin is a leader who realizes the changing tapestry of the region and he is in many ways responsible for it because of his intervention in the in the syrian conflict and he knows that perhaps saudi arabia and the others are not going to give up on their partnerships with the united states but he still willing to do deals with them as well i think the saudi arabian king is going to be here to talk politics certainly they'll be discussing iran they'll be discussing syria and various other problems of the region but the main progress i think that's going to be made on this trip is in the economic sphere they'll be talking about a joint energy fund to the tune of one billion dollars for investing in the energy industries they'll be looking at various investment opportunities in russia and

they'll be talking about continued cooperation in cutting oil production to boost energy prices so yeah i think the they will be doing politics but certainly they'll be doing a lot of business as well. how just air is demanding the release of its journalist mahmoud hussein has now been in prison in egypt's for more than nine months he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny authorities every fuse to allow him to be transferred for specialist treatment of a broken arm and an injury he sustained in jail the un has asked for four hundred thirty million dollars to scale up relief efforts for range of refugees who fled myanmar a military crackdown in rakhine state has forced more than half a million to seek safety in neighboring bangladesh homage on june recourse hometown conny campaign cox's presiding package. to give you some idea of the scale of this

crisis this encampment that we're in right now this didn't exist in cox's bazaar which is on the border of bangladesh myanmar more than a month ago now there are at least twenty thousand people here that's according to aid workers we've spoken with as well as some of the army officials that are just beyond that wall there distributing much needed aid to these were hindu refugees now even though aid is being distributed throughout the day fact of the matter is you talked to some of the new residents of this encampment they tell you how much more is needed a match is a short while ago with a young mother she has a nine month old baby girl her baby's head was burned in the past couple of weeks when her village in myanmar was torched she's concerned that her baby doesn't get the medical aid that it needs that she will die and at this point in this camp they don't have the kind of medical supplies for babies that the baby would need in

order to be treated correctly the scale of this even in front of your eyes is almost unfathomable it's very hard to comprehend and it seems as though there is absolutely no end in sight for the time being. people in thailand are saying a final farewell to their late king a year after he died thursday marks the last day they can pray in front of king. urn or his coffin inside the grand palace when he reports from bangkok. in sweltering conditions the long wait goes on it's been this way for a year as people lined up to enter the grand palace in bangkok to pray before the urn or coffin of the late king tut's a weird time on has been waiting in line for eleven hours and. i'm here to pay my respects to the cape this is my first time here i'm glad to have made it it's an honor to be here and to be able to be this close to him the government says more

than eleven million people have come here since king jr day died in october last year but numbers have swelled since an announcement from the palace that public access is coming to an end the funeral will provide some closure for thais who have been mourning the passing of the king but the result has some uncertainty king probably pawn reigned for seventy years having ascended the throne at the age of just eighteen so until he died he was the only king most thais have ever lived under his son king what you are long gone ascended the throne at the age of sixty four so won't have the luxury of time to build a legacy that his father did he's already the king but will be formally crowned in february he takes over at a difficult time thailand is still under military rule after a coup in two thousand and fourteen that many suggest was staged to ensure a smooth transition the army has crackdown on dissent and freedom of speech with particular focus on those who are alleged to have criticised or defamed the

monarchy the government says the country will be returned to democracy late next year but they could be further delays for the people here that's an issue for another day. their sole focus now is on saying farewell to the late king. when i'm in front of the king al feel grateful for all the things he did for us and all that he worked for waiting in line for eight hours is nothing compared to what he did all his life for us preparations are being finalized for the funeral which will be held on october the twenty sixth wayne hay al jazeera bangkok us secretary of state rex ellison has denied ever considering quitting his role as the country's top diplomat he was forced to make the denial after n.b.c. reported tellus and publicly insulted president donald trump in a meeting panicle hain has the details or a surprise statement from a secretary of state who doesn't make money let me tell you what i've learned about

this president whom i did not know before taking this office he loves this country he puts americans and america first. he's smart he was trying to refute this story in which n.b.c. news claims tillerson publicly called the president a moron after a national security meeting he repeatedly didn't deny that he said that but his spokeswoman later did he did not say that tillerson did refute the other allegation made in the report that he was going to quit tennis and tried to quit but was talked out of it by allies there's never been a consideration in my mind really sure at the appointment of the president and i'm here for as long as the president feels like to be useful to achieving his objectives secretary chillers and would have good reason to be frustrated he has been contradicted by his boss often and very publicly on issues such as the g.c.c. crisis and north korea foreign policy experts say it is hurting his credibility and

american foreign policy if he's perceived to be embattled if he's perceived to be weak then. the officials that he's talking to that he's trying to persuade will not put as much credibility into what he says and he will be much less effective but the report apparently hasn't changed the president's view of tillerson young very honored by this guy who is fake news who is a totally phony thank you very much is made up made up by n.b.c. they just made it up thank you ali thank you total confidence and the one thing we know for sure this is a president that cannot stand even perceived slights his secretary of state coming out quickly to say he didn't insult him making sure he doesn't join an already unprecedented and long list of people who the president has told your fired political hane al-jazeera washington. britain's prime minister theresa may has been trying to raise morrall at her conservative party's annual conference but the

speech didn't go to primus by the phillips reports. she came to manchester hoping to reestablish her or thorazine her final day speech was memorable but not as she would have intended. an apology for jude's election campaign in which the conservatives lost their majority went down well i hold my hands are for that i take responsibility i lead to the campaign and i am sorry from there it was downhill a prankster evaded security and handed the prime minister a document implying she should be fired he was bundled out but how did he manage to get here in the first place was to strange then given the prime minister lost her voice. and it got worse. public sector working together we have bounced back we've created record numbers of jobs. yes to her credit she carried on insisting that whilst bracks it is inevitable

britain remains a global power and we will meet our commitments to international security with the finest forces and intelligence services anywhere on the planet. we will build an outward looking britain that cooperates with other nations to tackle the great challenges of our time like mass migration. modern slavery and climate change it ended with letters falling off the wall behind her and sympathy from her husband. the prime minister is trying to convince many doubters both within her party and the country as a whole that she has what it takes she struggled at times in this speech but she's trying to show she has a policy agenda that she's not just an interim leader who will soon disappear

afterwards ministers were quick to defend the prime minister that's led to a lot of die round the world as to whether your party is united behind the prime minister can you tell me are absolutely united behind the prime minister she did a brilliant speech then and really on a lifting you could really feel hugely from the whole you know it was difficult in terms of her cough but you know the whole show the support of her supporters will say the speech show to reason may at her best human side her resilience and i will say it was the perfect metaphor for prime minister for him so much has gone wrong bobbie phillips al jazeera might just. the internet retail giant amazon has been ordered to pay almost three hundred million dollars in back taxes to the european union sold goods from warehouses across here for almost a decade in channel the sales store luxemburg says it had a special deal that meant it paid less tax than other companies. still ahead in

sport football's meant to unite people but in syria fans are divided about who the team represents joe have more on that after the break.

welcome back. thanks very much will syria's unlikely quest to qualify for their first before world cup continues on thursday they face australia in the biggest moment in the country's football history serious home game in the two legged play off won't be played in their own war damaged country but rather in malaysia they

still have a long way to go to reach russia the second leg takes place in sydney next week and should think when syria will still have to play two games against a team from north and central america. we have high hopes people have faith in us we're playing australia next they're a big team most of the players playing top leagues we have a match plan we want to serials and qualify. but rather than bringing people together the fans a divided about hate that seem really represents with opposition leaders accusing the government of politicizing football which shall reports. the syrian national teams will draw in iran last month sparked celebrations in the capital. football has the power to bring people together but not in a government controlled damascus were only supporters of bashar assad are now together in public. not far away you won't find any scenes of celebration

just more death and destruction in opposition controlled a sign that syria remains a war torn country the young men here whose dreams were to play football find themselves instead dodging bullets and bombs now that is the president of the opposition syrian football association he was a member of the general sports union before defecting in two thousand and twelve in protest at the regime of bashar assad he says the current national football team doesn't represent syrians other than from noting that in the world is now interested in the national team and to speak gotten about the massacres in my country the national team players and the management say football shouldn't be mixed with politics yet they have publicly thank those murdering out children have expressed their support for russia iran and the syrian regime. a common for saying is also from he's been playing football for twenty years he believes the regime is using the play off with australia to increase its popularity. they're

politicizing the game and the people have nothing to do with that this national team completely supports the regime and its crimes my message to the world whatever accepts the steel supports the crimes of the regime against civilians. while the focus is on the success of syria's national football team dozens of civilians are killed every day the united nations says at least four hundred thousand syrians have lost their lives in six years of war. if syria does qualify for the world cup political opponents for you are the war crimes committed by the assad regime and the struggle for syrians calling for freedom will be forgotten amidst the you for your of the sun abrasions. well on the theme of football and poets haste cherry pick a is adamant that he'll continue to play for the spanish national team despite being booed by fans over his support of the catalan independence referendum the ball slow to defend and face criticism from some fans during

a training session with the national team on monday and had said he'd retire from international duty if the federation didn't want his political views. yes i considered quitting the spanish team but in the end you have to consider every option and after thinking about it for a long time i decided the best thing was to stay and face this challenge if i leave now it would be letting the people who insult me and me win and i don't think they are a majority and i don't want to give them the luxury of quitting. well quite qualify will take place right across the globe over the next five days as more teams that support their spot at russia twenty eighteen we know eight of the thirty two teams so far starting in east asia you have japan and south korea now the latter has featured at every world cup dating back to nineteen eighty six if you shift over to the middle east you have iran and saudi arabia as the other two teams to

automatically qualify in europe russia will be competing as the host nation of course so far just one of the thirteen european teams of confirms that qualification and that's belgium who are ranked number nine in the world england germany serbia and spain could soon be joining them on the three automatic spots for north and central america and caribbean only mexico has booked its place in russia so far and the eight qualified team is of course brazil who have lost just once from their sixteen qualifying games they have played in every world cup but can you imagine a world cup without you know messi you might have to because argentina's qualification is far from guaranteed they've reached three major finals in three years but the team who came so close to winning the world cup in brazil in two thousand and fourteen now have two crucial games ahead of them against peru and ecuador they face the very real prospect of missing out on the world cup for the first time since one nine hundred seventy sitting fifth in the south america's

standings wealthy for president jenny has been in argentina as the country confirmed it will stage a joint bid with paraguayan you're going to host the twenty thirty feet for world cup argentina football has been besieged by problems involving financial mismanagement corruption and disorganization. you know there's a program in argentina in recent years unfortunately from an administrative point of view has been in a little bit of a bad way like others on this continent outside this continent and like fee for itself too and we all know it but in a country like argentina we have seen that there is the strength the passion and the heart to start working again now tokyo olympics organizers say they found high levels of bacteria at the open water swimming and triathlon venue for the twenty twenty games tests show levels of e-coli up to twenty times of of the acceptable

limits and fecal bacteria seven times higher than it should be organizes a vowing to improve the water quality in time for the games and move dates in case of heavy rain the news comes during a visit of the international in pick committee to assess tokyo's readiness with just over one thousand days to go. well turn is number two simona halep has achieved a first ever victory over maria sharapova this one came at the china open in beijing after sherif prover return from a drugs ban heloc criticised the russian being given a wildcard entry into her first tournament but the pair also met in the u.s. open first round in september but on wednesday it was the remaining in who is superior i switched work a sharp over six to six two. and that's all the sport for now. joe thank you there's a notable trend at this year's london film festival several of the films are focusing on disability but that's not been welcomed by all disability advocates explains. a love story a tragedy the tale of

a man who changed how society treats disabled people the film brief is these things people. the true story of robin cavendish a charming adventurous struck down by polio in the one nine hundred fifty s. his refusal to rot in hospital saw him become the pioneer of a new type of wheelchair a new opportunities for disabled people at the film's european premiere spider-man actor andrew garfield said his character was the ultimate hero what robin and diana did somehow they made such a joyous inspired. fully live rich life experience. through. here at the london film festival a number of films featured disabled characters the most under represented minority on screen. films like stronger the story of the victim of the two thousand and thirteen boston marathon bombing. but the casting of able bodied actor jake

gyllenhaal is proving controversial so much of stronger is about the characters physical challenges that some critics believe disabled actor should have been given the role. actor david proud was born with spina bifida he believes the industry is changing. disability is more authentic than ever before i think we need to look at the whole industry we have to look at how to drama schools film schools those schools are actually actively looking for people you're not going to. having disabled talent you know people on the sort of buses promoting films on the red carpet it's easy to get swept up in the glamour of the silver screen but more than any other has the power to transform how people understand the grounding disability . but the authenticity audience is

the grown ups a documentary following a group of adults with down syndrome. independent it's funny moments don't obscure the fact that they feel smothered by well meaning structure but if inclusion starts in film and media then this festival has just got off to a very positive start. london. that's it for this news hour stay with us on al-jazeera. a new level of luxury has arrived. an experience that will transform the way we treat. our impeccable service remains but no code breaking is a. revolutionary business. the old story for this is

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